2843.4 Mpg - GreenHybrid

SteveHansen · #1 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 04:57 AM

At this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas event the team from Mater Dei High School shattered last year's record by traveling 2,843.4 miles on a single gallon of gasoline.

The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.

Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.

The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225

Bobs Metallic Pearl · #2 (**permalink**) 04-15-2008, 07:07 AM

Wow, too bad it was windy, bet they could have pushed that up to 2850mpg without the 50 miles per hour winds

kerpal · #3 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveHansen

At this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas event the team from Mater Dei High School shattered last year's record by traveling 2,843.4 miles on a single gallon of gasoline.

The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.

Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle truck part with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.

The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225

What??? A highschool class came up with a plastic -covered recumbent bycycle??? Thats Great!!! What does that bicylce looks like?